Volume 100, Issue 18

9 May 2008

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On the Cover

Topological defect in a spinor BEC. The white and black tubes indicate the creation of a knot with topological charge equal to 1. A component of the order parameter is represented on the torus with color-coded phase information.

From the article:

Knots in a Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensate
Yuki Kawaguchi, Muneto Nitta, and Masahito Ueda
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 180403 (2008)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Coexistence of Covalent Superdeformation and Molecular Resonances in an Unbound Region of ${}^{12}{Be}$

M. Ito, N. Itagaki, H. Sakurai, and K. Ikeda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 182502 (2008) - Published 9 May, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Bound States in the Continuum in Photonics

D. C. Marinica, A. G. Borisov, and S. V. Shabanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 183902 (2008) - Published 8 May, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Out-of-Equilibrium Dynamics of Gene Expression and the Jarzynski Equality

Johannes Berg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 188101 (2008) - Published 5 May, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Differential Dynamic Microscopy: Probing Wave Vector Dependent Dynamics with a Microscope

Roberto Cerbino and Veronique Trappe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 188102 (2008) - Published 5 May, 2008

LETTERS

General Physics: Statistical and Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information, etc.

Joule Expansion of a Pure Many-Body State

S. Camalet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 180401 (2008) - Published 5 May, 2008

Non-Markovian Quantum Jumps

Jyrki Piilo, Sabrina Maniscalco, Kari Härkönen, and Kalle-Antti Suominen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 180402 (2008) - Published 5 May, 2008

Knots in a Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensate

Yuki Kawaguchi, Muneto Nitta, and Masahito Ueda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 180403 (2008) - Published 7 May, 2008

Dynamical Instability of the $X Y$ Spiral State of Ferromagnetic Condensates

R. W. Cherng, V. Gritsev, D. M. Stamper-Kurn, and E. Demler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 180404 (2008) - Published 7 May, 2008

Atom Interferometry with up to 24-Photon-Momentum-Transfer Beam Splitters

Holger Müller, Sheng-wey Chiow, Quan Long, Sven Herrmann, and Steven Chu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 180405 (2008) - Published 8 May, 2008

Engineering Correlation and Entanglement Dynamics in Spin Systems

T. S. Cubitt and J. I. Cirac

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 180406 (2008) - Published 8 May, 2008

Experimental Realization of Linear-Optical Partial swap Gates

Antonín Černoch, Jan Soubusta, Lucie Bartůšková, Miloslav Dušek, and Jaromír Fiurášek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 180501 (2008) - Published 6 May, 2008

Experimental Evidence of Non-Gaussian Fluctuations near a Critical Point

S. Joubaud, A. Petrosyan, S. Ciliberto, and N. B. Garnier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 180601 (2008) - Published 5 May, 2008

Optimized Free Energies from Bidirectional Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy

David D. L. Minh and Artur B. Adib

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 180602 (2008) - Published 6 May, 2008

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Evidence of Primordial Non-Gaussianity ( $f_{NL}$ ) in the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe 3-Year Data at $2.8 σ$

Amit P. S. Yadav and Benjamin D. Wandelt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 181301 (2008) - Published 7 May, 2008

Elementary Particles and Fields

Proton Decay and Flavor Violating Thresholds in SO(10) Models

Bhaskar Dutta, Yukihiro Mimura, and Rabindra N. Mohapatra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 181801 (2008) - Published 5 May, 2008

First Observation of the Decay $D_{s}^{+} \to p \bar{n}$

S. B. Athar et al. (CLEO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 181802 (2008) - Published 7 May, 2008

QCD Corrections to Double $J / ψ$ Production in $e^{+} e^{-}$ Annihilation at $\sqrt{s} = 10.6 GeV$

Bin Gong and Jian-Xiong Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 181803 (2008) - Published 7 May, 2008

Determination of the Parity of the Neutral Pion via Its Four-Electron Decay

E. Abouzaid et al. (KTeV Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 182001 (2008) - Published 6 May, 2008

Observation of the Decay $B_{c}^{\pm} \to J / ψ π^{\pm}$ and Measurement of the $B_{c}^{\pm}$ Mass

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 182002 (2008) - Published 8 May, 2008

Nuclear Physics

New Binding Energy for the Two-Neutron Halo of ${}^{11}{Li}$

C. Bachelet, G. Audi, C. Gaulard, C. Guénaut, F. Herfurth, D. Lunney, M. de Saint Simon, and C. Thibault

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 182501 (2008) - Published 6 May, 2008

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Coexistence of Covalent Superdeformation and Molecular Resonances in an Unbound Region of ${}^{12}{Be}$

M. Ito, N. Itagaki, H. Sakurai, and K. Ikeda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 182502 (2008) - Published 9 May, 2008

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Ionization of Methane in Strong and Ultrastrong Relativistic Fields

Sasi Palaniyappan, Rob Mitchell, Rob Sauer, Isaac Ghebregziabher, Samantha L. White, M. F. Decamp, and B. C. Walker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 183001 (2008) - Published 9 May, 2008

Absolute Charge Transfer and Fragmentation Cross Sections in ${He}^{2 +} − C_{60}$ Collisions

A. Rentenier, L. F. Ruiz, S. Díaz-Tendero, B. Zarour, P. Moretto-Capelle, D. Bordenave-Montesquieu, A. Bordenave-Montesquieu, P. -A. Hervieux, M. Alcamí, M. F. Politis, J. Hanssen, and F. Martín

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 183401 (2008) - Published 5 May, 2008

Ultrabroadband Biphotons Generated via Chirped Quasi-Phase-Matched Optical Parametric Down-Conversion

Magued B. Nasr, Silvia Carrasco, Bahaa E. A. Saleh, Alexander V. Sergienko, Malvin C. Teich, Juan P. Torres, Lluis Torner, David S. Hum, and Martin M. Fejer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 183601 (2008) - Published 5 May, 2008

Casimir-Lifshitz Theory and Metamaterials

F. S. S. Rosa, D. A. R. Dalvit, and P. W. Milonni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 183602 (2008) - Published 7 May, 2008

Subnatural Linewidth Biphotons with Controllable Temporal Length

Shengwang Du, Pavel Kolchin, Chinmay Belthangady, G. Y. Yin, and S. E. Harris

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 183603 (2008) - Published 8 May, 2008

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Suppression of Nonlinear Interactions in Resonant Macroscopic Quantum Devices: The Example of the Solid-State Ring Laser Gyroscope

Sylvain Schwartz, François Gutty, Gilles Feugnet, Philippe Bouyer, and Jean-Paul Pocholle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 183901 (2008) - Published 5 May, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Bound States in the Continuum in Photonics

D. C. Marinica, A. G. Borisov, and S. V. Shabanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 183902 (2008) - Published 8 May, 2008

Universality of Algebraic Decays in Hamiltonian Systems

G. Cristadoro and R. Ketzmerick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 184101 (2008) - Published 6 May, 2008

Semiclassical Propagation of Gaussian Wave Packets

Raphael N. P. Maia, Fernando Nicacio, Raúl O. Vallejos, and Fabricio Toscano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 184102 (2008) - Published 6 May, 2008

Generation of Magnetic Field by Combined Action of Turbulence and Shear

T. A. Yousef, T. Heinemann, A. A. Schekochihin, N. Kleeorin, I. Rogachevskii, A. B. Iskakov, S. C. Cowley, and J. C. McWilliams

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 184501 (2008) - Published 6 May, 2008

Formation of the “Superconducting” Core in Turbulent Thermal Convection

J. J. Niemela and K. R. Sreenivasan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 184502 (2008) - Published 6 May, 2008

Extreme Lagrangian Acceleration in Confined Turbulent Flow

Benjamin Kadoch, Wouter J. T. Bos, and Kai Schneider

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 184503 (2008) - Published 8 May, 2008

Plasma and Beam Physics

High-Transmission Planar X-Ray Waveguides

T. Salditt, S. P. Krüger, C. Fuhse, and C. Bähtz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 184801 (2008) - Published 7 May, 2008

Plasma Currents and Electron Distribution Functions under a dc Electric Field of Arbitrary Strength

S. M. Weng, Z. M. Sheng, M. Q. He, J. Zhang, P. A. Norreys, M. Sherlock, and A. P. L. Robinson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 185001 (2008) - Published 5 May, 2008

Scale Separation between Electron and Ion Thermal Transport

T. Görler and F. Jenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 185002 (2008) - Published 5 May, 2008

Studies of Plastic-Ablator Compressibility for Direct-Drive Inertial Confinement Fusion on Omega

S. X. Hu, V. A. Smalyuk, V. N. Goncharov, J. P. Knauer, P. B. Radha, I. V. Igumenshchev, J. A. Marozas, C. Stoeckl, B. Yaakobi, D. Shvarts, T. C. Sangster, P. W. McKenty, D. D. Meyerhofer, S. Skupsky, and R. L. McCrory

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 185003 (2008) - Published 6 May, 2008

Lagrangian-Eulerian Micromotion and Wave Heating in Nonlinear Self-Excited Dust-Acoustic Waves

Chen-Ting Liao, Lee-Wen Teng, Chen-Yu Tsai, Chong-Wai Io, and Lin I

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 185004 (2008) - Published 6 May, 2008

Role of Hot-Electron Preheating in the Compression of Direct-Drive Imploding Targets with Cryogenic $D_{2}$ Ablators

V. A. Smalyuk, D. Shvarts, R. Betti, J. A. Delettrez, D. H. Edgell, V. Yu. Glebov, V. N. Goncharov, R. L. McCrory, D. D. Meyerhofer, P. B. Radha, S. P. Regan, T. C. Sangster, W. Seka, S. Skupsky, C. Stoeckl, B. Yaakobi, J. A. Frenje, C. K. Li, R. D. Petrasso, and F. H. Séguin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 185005 (2008) - Published 8 May, 2008

High-Areal-Density Fuel Assembly in Direct-Drive Cryogenic Implosions

T. C. Sangster et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 185006 (2008) - Published 8 May, 2008

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Phase Separated BEC for High-Sensitivity Force Measurement

S. G. Bhongale and Eddy Timmermans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 185301 (2008) - Published 5 May, 2008

Metadynamics Simulations of the High-Pressure Phases of Silicon Employing a High-Dimensional Neural Network Potential

Jörg Behler, Roman Martoňák, Davide Donadio, and Michele Parrinello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 185501 (2008) - Published 5 May, 2008

Disorder-Recrystallization Effects in Low-Energy Beam-Solid Interactions

M. J. Beck, R. D. Schrimpf, D. M. Fleetwood, and S. T. Pantelides

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 185502 (2008) - Published 6 May, 2008

Dislocation-Source Shutdown and the Plastic Behavior of Single-Crystal Micropillars

H. Tang, K. W. Schwarz, and H. D. Espinosa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 185503 (2008) - Published 6 May, 2008

Critical Surfaces for General Bond Percolation Problems

Christian R. Scullard and Robert M. Ziff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 185701 (2008) - Published 7 May, 2008

Nucleation-Limited Dewetting of Ice Films on Pt(111)

Konrad Thürmer and Norman C. Bartelt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 186101 (2008) - Published 6 May, 2008

Nanoscale Periodicity in Stripe-Forming Systems at High Temperature: $Au / W (110)$

J. de la Figuera, F. Léonard, N. C. Bartelt, R. Stumpf, and K. F. McCarty

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 186102 (2008) - Published 6 May, 2008

Wetting on Nanorough Surfaces

T. Biben and L. Joly

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 186103 (2008) - Published 7 May, 2008

Strain Induced Dewetting of a Molecular System: Bimodal Growth of PTCDA on NaCl

S. A. Burke, W. Ji, J. M. Mativetsky, J. M. Topple, S. Fostner, H.-J. Gao, H. Guo, and P. Grütter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 186104 (2008) - Published 9 May, 2008

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Band Offsets at the $Si / {SiO}_{2}$ Interface from Many-Body Perturbation Theory

R. Shaltaf, G.-M. Rignanese, X. Gonze, Feliciano Giustino, and Alfredo Pasquarello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 186401 (2008) - Published 5 May, 2008

Electronic Structure, Phonons, and Dielectric Anomaly in Ferromagnetic Insulating Double Pervoskite ${La}_{2} {NiMnO}_{6}$

Hena Das, Umesh V. Waghmare, T. Saha-Dasgupta, and D. D. Sarma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 186402 (2008) - Published 5 May, 2008

Band-Gap Design of Quaternary (In,Ga)(As,Sb) Semiconductors via the Inverse-Band-Structure Approach

Paulo Piquini, Peter A. Graf, and Alex Zunger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 186403 (2008) - Published 5 May, 2008

Dimensional Tuning of Electronic States under Strong and Frustrated Interactions

Chisa Hotta and Frank Pollmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 186404 (2008) - Published 8 May, 2008

Direct Evidence for Delocalization of Charge Carriers at the Fermi Level in a Doped Conducting Polymer

Jing-Mei Zhuo, Li-Hong Zhao, Perq-Jon Chia, Wee-Sun Sim, Richard H. Friend, and Peter K. H. Ho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 186601 (2008) - Published 7 May, 2008

Boundary-Mediated Electron-Electron Interactions in Quantum Point Contacts

V. T. Renard, O. A. Tkachenko, V. A. Tkachenko, T. Ota, N. Kumada, J.-C. Portal, and Y. Hirayama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 186801 (2008) - Published 5 May, 2008

Self-Organization of Irregular Nanoelectromechanical Vibrations in Multimode Shuttle Structures

L. M. Jonsson, F. Santandrea, L. Y. Gorelik, R. I. Shekhter, and M. Jonson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 186802 (2008) - Published 5 May, 2008

Low-Density Ferromagnetism in Biased Bilayer Graphene

Eduardo V. Castro, N. M. R. Peres, T. Stauber, and N. A. P. Silva

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 186803 (2008) - Published 5 May, 2008

Surface Plasmon Optical Tweezers: Tunable Optical Manipulation in the Femtonewton Range

Maurizio Righini, Giovanni Volpe, Christian Girard, Dmitri Petrov, and Romain Quidant

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 186804 (2008) - Published 6 May, 2008

Ab Initio Studies of the Spin-Transfer Torque in Magnetic Tunnel Junctions

Christian Heiliger and M. D. Stiles

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 186805 (2008) - Published 6 May, 2008

Spectrum of $π$ Electrons in Graphene as a Macromolecule

Lyuba Malysheva and Alexander Onipko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 186806 (2008) - Published 7 May, 2008

Many-Body Generalization of the $Z_{2}$ Topological Invariant for the Quantum Spin Hall Effect

Sung-Sik Lee and Shinsei Ryu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 186807 (2008) - Published 7 May, 2008

Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer Theory of Finite-Size Superconducting Metallic Grains

Antonio M. García-García, Juan Diego Urbina, Emil A. Yuzbashyan, Klaus Richter, and Boris L. Altshuler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 187001 (2008) - Published 5 May, 2008

Reversible to Irreversible Flow Transition in Periodically Driven Vortices

N. Mangan, C. Reichhardt, and C. J. Olson Reichhardt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 187002 (2008) - Published 5 May, 2008

Strong Tunable Coupling between a Superconducting Charge and Phase Qubit

A. Fay, E. Hoskinson, F. Lecocq, L. P. Lévy, F. W. J. Hekking, W. Guichard, and O. Buisson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 187003 (2008) - Published 6 May, 2008

Supercurrent Switch in Graphene $π$ Junctions

Jacob Linder, Takehito Yokoyama, Daniel Huertas-Hernando, and Asle Sudbø

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 187004 (2008) - Published 7 May, 2008

de Haas–van Alphen Oscillations in the Underdoped High-Temperature Superconductor ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{6.5}$

Cyril Jaudet, David Vignolles, Alain Audouard, Julien Levallois, D. LeBoeuf, Nicolas Doiron-Leyraud, B. Vignolle, M. Nardone, A. Zitouni, Ruixing Liang, D. A. Bonn, W. N. Hardy, Louis Taillefer, and Cyril Proust

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 187005 (2008) - Published 8 May, 2008